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• Perils of Keyword-Based Bibliometrics: ISI’s ’1990 Effect’

  February 5, 2010

  Have you done historical bibliometric analysis of a scientific field or topic area and found that there is a massive increase in research articles after 1990?  Are you using ISI’s Web of Science and searching by topic or keyword?  If so, don’t make the same mistake I did: these results aren’t because of some sea [...]

  posted in Blog Posts by R. Stuart Geiger

• The Work of Sustaining Order in Wikipedia: The Banning of a Vandal

  October 28, 2009

  With the help of my advisor, Dr. David Ribes, I recently got a chapter of my master’s thesis accepted to the ACM conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, to be held in February 2010 in Savannah, Georgia. It is titled “The Work of Sustaining Order in Wikipedia: The Banning of a Vandal” and focuses on [...]

  posted in Academic Works, Conference Presentations, Published Works, Wikis by R. Stuart Geiger

• WikiConference New York: An Open Unconference

  September 7, 2009

  A few months ago, I had the pleasure of presenting at the first (hopefully annual) WikiConference New York, sponsored by the Wikimedia New York City chapter with assistance from Free Culture @ NYU and the Information Law Institute at NYU’s law school. I know that I am atrociously late in writing this post, but I’m [...]

  posted in Conference Notes, Wikis by R. Stuart Geiger

• Researching Wikipedia Holistically: A Tentative Approach

  October 11, 2008

  This is a tentative article-length introduction to my thesis on Wikipedia. It is an attempt to analyze Wikipedia from an interdisciplinary perspective that tries to make problematic various assumptions, concepts, and relations that function quite well in the “real world” but are not well-suited to studying Wikipedia. I begin by talking about the nature of [...]

  posted in Thesis, Unpublished by R. Stuart Geiger